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Author: Cuntara Rāmacāmi
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9788187649984
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Structured As A Biography Of A Fictional Malayalam Writer-It Is At One Level A Critique Of The World Of Tamil Letters And On Another, A Novel Of Ideas Engaged With The Burning Questions Of To Bring And Existece. Represents The Best Of Tamil Writing Even To-Day, More Than 20 Years After Its First Apperance.
Author: A. R. Venkatachalapathy
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Published: 2019-01-24
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1529022592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tamilnadu’s politics and culture befuddle outside observers. Ruled for half a century by two regional parties – DMK and AIADMK – its politics has been marked by language pride, non-Brahmin movement, caste-based reservation, regionalism, welfare populism, and cinema. Despite the negative coverage it tends to get from outside, Tamilnadu is a developed state scoring high on all human development indicators. In Tamil Characters, noted historian A. R. Venkatachalapathy provides a ringside view of contemporary Tamilnadu beginning with an assessment of political figures such as Periyar and Anna, Karunanidhi and Jayalalithaa, and significant poets, writers and thinkers including Subramania Bharati and Iyotheethos Pandithar. The final section discusses contentious issues such as language politics, prohibition, jallikattu and Dalit rights.
Author: C. T. Indra
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-11-13
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1351335944
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the English-speaking missionaries and East India Company functionaries in South India were impelled to master Tamil, the local language, in order to transact their business. Tamil also comprised ancient classical literary works, especially ethical and moral literature, which were found especially suited to the preferences of Christian missionaries. This interface between English and Tamil acted as a conduit for cultural transmission among different groups. The essays in this volume explore the symbiotic relation between English and Tamil during the late colonial and postcolonial as also the modernist and the postmodernist periods. The book showcases the modernity of contemporary Tamil culture as reflected in its literary and artistic productions — poetry, fiction, short fiction and drama — and outlines the aesthetics, philosophy and methodology of these translations. This volume and its companion (which looks at the period between 1750 to 1900 CE) cover the late colonial and postcolonial era and will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of translation studies, literature, linguistics, sociology and social anthropology, South Asian studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, literary and critical theory as well as culture studies.
Author: Ā. Irā Vēṅkaṭācalapati
Publisher: Yoda Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9788190227278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Suitable for both the academician as well as the layman, this book draws from sources as varied as fiction, essays, reviews, and more.
Author: Acōkamittiran̲
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9788125026822
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fictional events narrated in Mole! an English translation of Otran, a novel by Ashokamitran take place within a period of seven months, nearly all of them in the American Midwest. The narrator, a culturally rooted writer from Chennai, is transplanted amidst a motley group of fellow-writers from distant parts of the world, all of them as dangerously dislocated as him. Deprived of the language that has brought them fulfillment and distinction, these writers struggle to retain their place of precarious honour in a strange, unfamiliar and sometimes hostile environment. And in the background looms the endearing, if exasperating, landscape of twentieth-century America. Kalyan Raman s English translation illumines the subtle, spare strength of Ashokamitran s prose.
Author: Saugata Bhaduri
Publisher: Katha
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9788189934248
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Translation of short stories from Indic langauges.
Author: Bāṇī Basu
Publisher: Katha
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9788189934064
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Maitreyī Pushpā
Publisher: Katha
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 604
ISBN-13: 9788187649236
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The saga of Alma Kabutari does not begin with Alma herself. It has its roots in centuries of social and sexual subjugation of the kabutaris by the upper-caste kajjas. Like Chittor's Rani Padmini of yore, from whom the kabutaris are descended, the onus of breaking the vicious circle and reclaiming human status for her people falls on young Alma. The engrossing story of young Alma's evolution from victim to survivor to tenacious rebel, Alma Kabutari opens a window to the suffering and exploitation of a tribe that teeters at the very fringes of society even today, and that urgently needs our concern and understanding.
Author: Ti Jān̲akirāman̲
Publisher: Sixthsense Publications
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9788187649311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thi Jaa weaves a lyrical story of a vedapadasalai by the Kaveri and an orthodox household in Madras with an array of vivid, lifelike characters. His portrayal of women who pursue their passions with calm self-assurance is bold and uncritical.
Author: Kr̥shṇa Sobatī
Publisher: Katha
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9788187649540
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Set in the first quarter of 20th century Delhi, The Heart Has Its Reasons dwells on the fine balance between love and family. Writer par excellence and recipient of the Katha Chudamani and Sahitya Akademi Awards, Sobti s powerful narratives defy territorial specifics.
